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Fran Mason's avatar

It's hard to take in that there are people who tell other people how they can and can't talk about the books they read. I have only a bachelor degree but that theory stuff sounds designed to make reading boring.

Kieran Garland's avatar

i've not engaged as much as others with her work, but how do you see Emma Smith fitting in to this debate? i've enjoyed what i've read of hers so far. incidentally, it'd be wonderful to hear you both talk about Shakespeare at some point

Henry Oliver's avatar

yes I like her work a lot and that would be a great interview!

Max Davies's avatar

If you cannot see that all human life, all human lives, are in Shakespeare, I’ve no patience with you.

If you can read Hamlet and not recognize some of the most exquisitely drawn characters in all literature, your academic endeavors have destroyed Shakespeare for you and you are to be pitied.

Call_Me_Cellador_'s avatar

AC Bradley is the best critic I've ever read. (Of course there are very many I have not.) That he is viewed negatively by the academy now seems like good reason to not pay much attention to them.